The name was Emily Dickinson. Inclosed with the letter were four poems, two of which have been ... sympathy with the life of nature:-- A bird came down the walk; He did not know I saw; He bit ...

Passionate, astute, concentrated. The poems of Emily Dickinson (1830–86) have marked her out as one of the great American poets and she has been placed by the critic Harold Bloom as a key figure ...

By comparison, Emily Dickinson’s known epistolary output ... nature accomplishes effortlessly and on a far grander scale. In her poem “A Bird, came down the Walk,” Dickinson offers a ...